1807.]° 
the most atrocious expedition of which history 
can preserve remembrance, and which has co- 
vered the English government with indelible 
shame. Why did the English evacuate Zea- 
Jand and Copenhagen aiter the Prince Royal 
had refused to receive their envoy, and to ra- 
tify the capitulation ? Because they were sen- 
sible of their feebleness by land, and feared 
the approach of winter, and of that season, 
when the approach of the Danish troops should 
be facilitated by the ice.” 
The article then proceeds thus :—<¢ After 
these fuur expeditions, which so manifestly 
shew the moral and military decline of Eng- 
land, let us speak of the situattun into which 
it has brought Portugal, 
‘* The Prince Regent of Portugal loses his 
throne: he loses it, influenced by the in- 
trigues of England! He loses it, because he 
would not seize the English merchandize 
which was at Lisbon, 
*¢ What then does England, that powerful 
ally ?—She sces with indifference what passes 
in Portugal. What will she do when Portu- 
gal shall be taken? Will she go and seize 
upon Brazil? Wo3 if the English make that 
attempt, the Catholics will drive them out. 
The fall of the house of Braganza will remain 
a new proof that the destruction of whoso- 
ever attaches himself to the English is inevi- 
table.” 
The article thus concludes : 
<< The refusal of the mediation of the em- 
peror Alexander, and the expedition to Copen- 
hagen, sufficiently reveal the sentinrents. of 
the English ministry, and their systern of per- 
petual war.—The first consequence of these 
Peport of Diseases. 
495 
events has therefore been to determine the 
nations of the continent which were still at 
peace with England, to break off in future all 
connection with her. Austria did not hesi- 
tate: scarcely had the emperor Francis Ie 
received information of the events at Copen- 
hagen, and the refusal of the English to ace 
cept the mediation of Russia, when he de- 
clared war against England. Already the 
blockade is close on every side. Lord Pem- 
broke, when he left Vienna, in order to return 
to London, was forced to emburk at Trieste. 
The correspondence from Vienna can ne 
longer arrive at London. ‘The correspondence 
of England with every part-of the continent 
is intercepted. We have in our hands, in 
consequence of the blockade, more than 
100,000 English letters and bills of exchange 
to the amount of several nuillions sterling. 
These measures must reduce the Muglish na- 
tion to a desperate situation. But what doves 
this signify te the men who govern that 
nation? What have they in common with 
the English people ?—-Happily, on the day 
when these ministers shall be overthrown, 
they will become nothing. They may, for 
some time, continue to act on their maxims, 
but a catastrophe is inevitable. Peace, the 
first of benefits to a nation, ought to be the 
principal end of all the actions of those who 
govern. 
‘* A ministry which professes perpetual 
war, betrays the dearest interests of its coun- 
try. Jt has lost its confidence. Its inevitable 
and quickly approaching fall will satisfy che | 
interest of the nation, and of public morals,” 
a i + ee 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and prevaie Practice of one of the Physicians of the Finsbury Dispensary, 
from the 20th of October to the 20th of November. 
a 
WM ORBI Infantiles .-.- 2... 22+. 2. 23 
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A singular excess of infantile diseases 
has occurred during the last month, 
partly from medicinal, but m_ a_ still 
greater degree from maternal, misma- 
nugement. | 
It is a case more rare, than it is gene- 
cally imagined, for a child to dic what 
may perhaps be strictly regarded as a 
natural death.* 
The case of paralysis inserted in the 
list, was peculiarly melancholy and inter~ 
esting. {twas that of a young man, who, 
in consequence of having caught cold 
under a mercurial course, to which he had 
frequently before been under the neces- 
sity of submitting, was attacked with a 
palsy of the left side, which soon became 
universal,except in the muscles about the 
face. He presented the spectacle of a 
living head, moving upon a deceased and 
motionless body... Death soon, however, 
completed his task, and liberated the 
sufferer 
* For a further illustration of this subject, 
the reporter recommends the reader to Dr. 
Herdman’s Discourses on the Management of 
Infants, and the Treatmeut of their Diseases. 
